St. Kevin's Update, Kroc Dedication Photos, BPL Trustees Silent
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Rep Carlos Henriquez has scheduled community meetings
so your voice can be heard. There is no agenda except
what you make it.
Come with your ideas, concerns, issues and willingness to help
out. Be ready to say what's on your mind.
Meeting @ St. Peter's
April 26th, 6:30-8:00p.m.
278 Bowdoin St.
617-282-3614
Dudley/Grove
Hall Main Street Strategic Planning
Wed Apr 27, 2011 5:30-7:30pm
2315 Washington St, Roxbury
The public is invited to participate - visioning and brainstorming
about
economic restructuring, commercial and residential areas, crime and it
effect on public
safety, building the right image.
Uphams Corner Reinvented
(Postponed)
Thu, April
28th (5:30 - 7:30 pm)
Kroc Center, 650 Dudley St
Unveiling the new Upham's Corner Main Street organizational strategic
plan.
5:30 Kroc Center Tour / Reception
6:00 Strategic Plan Unveiling & Community Feedback
Boston City Singers - Walk for Music
May 22, 2011
Boston City Singers is joining the annual "Walk for Music," a
pledge walkathon for Boston's arts community. Their goal is
$25,000.
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Savin
Scoop Celebrates
Wed, Apr. 6, 2011 4:30pm
107 Savin Hill Ave, Dorchester MA
City officials, neighbors and friends
from near and far joined Savin Scoop and Mayor Menino as they cut the
ribbon to welcome this new business into the Savin Hill Village section
of Dorchester.
Savin Scoop specializes in locally made ice cream, smoothies, frappes,
coffee,
espresso and many other scrumptious treats right here in the Savin Hill
neighborhood.
Celebration
photos
Mouthwatering
Meatloaf
March 24, 2011
Hosted by First Parish Church, Meetinghouse Hill, the featured kickoff
event for the Dorchester Day Parade was delicious and generated happy
faces and satisfied appetites.
Several hundred people attended and enjoyed the mouthwatering meatloaf
dinner catered by Gerard's.
Photos
of the hungry crowd
Chili
Cook-off Winners
April 10, 2011
The Fifth Annual Chili Cook-off drew 175-200 people to the IBEW
Hall on Sunday and the winners have been announced.
Each contestant contributed their own specialty chili, nachos
and cheese while the attendees sampled the best of the best
chili in Dorchester.
Proceeds will benefit the Dorchester Day Parade.
Cooks,
tasters & photos.
More Links:
About the
Dorchester Day Parade.
Dorchester Day website.
A Look at the City
School Programs
Second in a series
April 11, 2011
City
School offers programs to teens around issues of social justice during
'out of school time' - after school, weekends and summers. It is
an environment where everyone is accepted and safe.
Based on peer-to-peer learning, youth develop leadership, organizing
and organizational skills. They get an in-depth understanding of issues
confronting them in their daily lives, in their communities and in the
media. Best of all, they get to follow their passions.
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City School Youth
Stories
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Upham's Corner InSight
into the News
Thought of the Day: Yesterday and Tomorrow live right next door.
Reflections
BPL Trustees Invite Comment, then What?
A
special BPL trustees meeting was held on Feb 24, 2011 where the public
was invited to comment. Speakers contributed a wealth of ideas,
offerings of help and new ways
of approaching problem solving.
Two months later the BPL has yet to respond - no meeting minutes, no
acknowledgements of the public comments.
Wait long enough and no one will remember the meeting even took place.
Upham's Corner News is
providing a summary,
analysis and
commentary of the Public Comments along with a complete
transcript. (To put on their website, our gift).
We ask that the Library/Trustees
take time to read the comments, acknowledge the public's contribution
and
respond respectfully.
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St.
Kevin's Development - Update
Apr 12, 2011
Representatives from the Planning Office for Urban Affairs
met with the Upham.s Corner Westside Neighborhood Association to
solicit
feedback on the St. Kevin's development project.
Residents raised concerns
over parking, the height of the
buildings and traffic and discussed issues
beyond the scope of the developer's responsibility that affect the
entire neighborhood.
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Salvation
Army Kroc
Center - Ribbon Cutting & Dediction
Sat, April 2, 2011
Long in the making, the Kroc Center represents the dream of a
community, fostered by a process that straddled well over 100 design
meetings. Opportunity, access, safe space and a place to heal, just
some of what the residents asked for.
Linda Wendfeldt, shared a story about her mother, Joan Kroc.
.Just
Keep Lovin. was her mother's advice. Kroc
Center programs reflect this love.
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Peace
Garden at the Winthrop School
April 16, 2011
Winthrop School staff planned a beautification project for Global Youth
Services Day, April 16, 2011. City Year and other volunteers
picked up
the challenge. It will take a month or so before the extensive
renovations are complete but it already looks great.
New murals brighten both playgrounds. New maps of the United
States
and the world in the play areas help students orient themselves in the
world. A long stretch of wall on Dacia St that previously invited
graffiti and
gang symbols is now a mural walking tour. The Louis D Brown Peace
Garden teaches the students and the community how to work out
differences peacefully.
Story and Photos
Henriquez
Community Meeting Focuses on Rebuilding Neighborhoods
April 5, 2011
The second Henriquez Commitment to Community meeting, held at the
Thomas Atkins Building, 233 Blue Hill Ave, gave residents a chance to
talk about the quality of life in their neighborhoods . what.s missing,
wanting to trust the neighbors, isolation, crime and crime prevention.
At each juncture Rep. Henriquez encouraged the residents to get
involved. Join your neighborhood association or a neighborhood watch
group. Above all else, don't ignore the problems. Speak up.
Make the phone calls and be heard.
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First
Henriquez "Commitment to Community" Meeting
Tue, Mar 29, 2011
State Rep Carlos Henriquez held the first of five scheduled community
meetings. He has ideas, but wanted to use these meetings to give
voice to resident issues.
Issues discussed included prostitution and liquor establishments on
Blue Hill Ave, street cleaning - commercial and residential streets,
the lack of enforcement or ordinances and its effect, disparity of city
services, the importance of police operating visibally and at the
street level, close to the impact players. and jobs for the "forgotten"
youth 18 to 24.Finally, almost more important than anything else, was how to get more
residents involved in community action.
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Strand
Theatre Events |
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4/24
10AM
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Kingdom Easter
Explosion For more information visit www.thekingdomchurch.com
or call 617-474-9871, 617-635-1403.
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4/24
7pm
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Bobby
Perry and Rain CD Release Concert - Featuring special guests Jason
Nelson and Natalie Wilson. General tickets are $20. More info: www.bobbyperryonline.com
or call 617-635-1403.
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4/30
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2011 New England Urban Music Awards - Tribute to
Women in Music
Join us to celebrate Women in the music industry, this year recognizing
the talented, hard working women who are competely dedicated to the
performing arts. For more information call 617-686-1377 or visit www.urbanmusicawards.org
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5/06
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Boston Classical Orchestra Concert
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5/07
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Tech Goes Home Graduation
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5/14
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Chinese Cultural Dance Performance (day)
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5/15
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Boston City Singers
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5/22
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Boston Children's Chorus
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5/26
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Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, Cuban Ballet |
Darrin Howell
Addresses Youth
Sat April 16, 2011: Strand Theatre 
GOTCHA.s
Sixth Annual Youth Summit was a full-day affair - 1pm to 11pm -
workshops, a talent show, dinner and dance with over 100 youth
attending.
The purpose? To bring youth together to address
issues that affect their lives, consensus buiilding and promoting
positive
solutions.
Darrin
Howell, keynote speaker, provided a stirring message for the youth
based on his own travails. He and shared with us that inner
motivation makes all the difference. You have to want to succeed
as .bad. as you want to breathe.
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Grubbs Named Youth Officer
Apr 13, 2011
Just announced - Officer Kenny Grubbs, our faithful and beloved B2 CSO
(Community Services Officer) has been asked to take over as Youth
Officer for all of B2.
From Kenny: "I'm excited about this. I did this before, so
when I got the announcement, it was good. Will I miss being the
CSO? You'll see me around everywhere.
My first step is to contact the community centers and look at what
programs will benefit the youth - all the centers. It needs to be
a team effort."
The
Mayor's Food
Court
The
Health Division of Inspectional Services (ISD) inspects Boston
restaurants and posts the results online at the City of Boston
website.
The Mayor's Food Court displays the last couple years of inspection
reports but some data appears to be missing. After speaking with
Lisa
Timberlake from ISD, the Health Division has acknowledged that their
data is inconsistent but they don't know why. They plan, she
said, to
remove ALL prior years data, retaining only the last.
Upham's Corner News has sent a letter to
ISD Health Division
requesting that historic data NOT be removed, that such reports are
important for all Boston area residents who want to understand a
restaurant's history.
Upham's
Corner News will be reviewing restaurants as part of the new series
"Food Court" based on the Health Division reports (not what the
customers say). We will also be looking at patterns of non-compliance
across multiple
restaurants.
Restaurant
Inspections - Standards & Procedures
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